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COM Outlook . Winter 2015
NSU
OVERVIEW
NSU Opens Regional Campus
in Puerto Rico
NSU reconfirmed its commitment to Puerto Rico with the grand
opening of a new regional campus in San Juan, which represents an
expansion of its educational offerings and also provides increased op-
portunities for students university-wide.
A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held at the campus on August 28
to celebrate the opening of a new four-story, state-of-the-art building
that will be offering master’s and doctoral degrees in pharmacy and
education at the campus located in San Juan’s Professional Offices
Park IV. It is estimated that the regional campus will have a $27 million
economic impact on the island this fiscal year.
College of Optometry
Receives Major Grant
From National Eye Institute
The National Eye Institute of the National Institutes of Health has
awarded approximately $556,532 to investigators at NSU’s College of
Optometry to study the relationship between the vision condition, con-
vergence insufficiency, and reading performance and attention. Con-
vergence insufficiency is a common vision disorder in which the eyes
turn slightly outward when a person is reading or doing work close to
his or her eyes.
The grant will fund the Convergence Insufficiency Treatment Trial—
Attention and Reading Trial, which is a national, multicenter clinical trial
that involves optometry, ophthalmology, psychiatry, and education in
determining how this eye-teaming problem impacts a child’s attention
and reading performance. NSU is one of seven clinical sites participat-
ing across the United States.
prove the attainment of, Hispanic students. These grants also enable
HSIs to expand and enhance their academic offerings, program qual-
ity, and institutional stability.
Pictured (from left) are: Winel Segarra, NSU College of Pharmacy student; Andrés
Malavé, Ph.D., executive director of NSU’s Puerto Rico Regional Campus in San Juan;
George L. Hanbury II, Ph.D., NSU president and CEO; Jacqueline Travisano, M.B.A.,
CPA, NSU executive vice president and chief operating officer; and Alexis-Morales-
Fresse, NSU Abraham S. Fischler School of Education student.
